Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Analilia Mejia, a progressive Democrat, was elected on April 16 to a New Jersey House seat after a race that was heavily defined by attitudes toward President Trump.
Mejia, an organizer by trade who helped run Senator Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, will replace Gov. Mikie Sherrill in the largely affluent and suburban 11th Congressional District. Sherrill, a moderate Democrat, resigned after being elected governor in November.
Mejia will serve out the remaining eight months of Sherrill’s term and has already entered the race for a full two-year term in November. Mejia, who supports abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, was the most liberal of the 11 Democrats who competed for the nomination in a February primary.
